"Everything was normal and fell to pieces" Civil Aviation Administration of China announced the progress of the investigation into the crash of China Eastern Airlines 5735

Thursday (March 21), it will be two years since the crash of China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735. The Civil Aviation Administration of China reported the progress of its investigation into the accident on Wednesday (March 20). The conclusion at this stage seems to be that everything is normal, but netizens are still full of doubts about this.

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Two years ago, China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashed in Teng County, Wuzhou, Guangxi, causing a nationwide shock. All 132 people on board were killed, including 123 passengers and 9 crew members. But since then, the investigation into the accident has been inconclusive.

On March 20 last year, on the first anniversary of the accident, the Civil Aviation Administration of China issued a progress report on the investigation, saying that because the accident was "very complex and extremely rare," the investigation was still ongoing.

At that time, a senior executive of China National Aviation Technology Import and Export Corporation said in an interview with the Chinese state-run media Global Times that the plane almost completely disintegrated after crashing to the ground at high speed, and the wreckage was fragmented and scattered, which made evidence collection and investigation extremely difficult. .

In a briefing from the Civil Aviation Administration of China on Wednesday, the accident investigation appeared to have made some progress after two years. The main part of the report mainly introduces the specific work carried out by the Civil Aviation Administration in three aspects: wreckage search, identification and analysis, flight operations and aircraft airworthiness, and flight support. The most important conclusion appears in the second half of the report, which states that the licenses and health of the flight crew and cabin crew members, the aircraft system, and the fuselage structure all meet the requirements, and that the relevant operational support personnel arrive at the departure airport on the day of departure. There were no abnormalities in the previous radio communications and control command, and even the loading of the flight in question met the requirements.

But this announcement seems to dissatisfy many netizens. Some people joked on the social media It is not enough to directly retrieve the various compliance records before the plane takes off. It seems that just a few months of investigation of this level is enough. Some people even analyzed that this report very carefully excluded almost all technical factors in the plane crash, but it did not exclude any human factors.

In fact, the biggest controversy surrounding the crash of 5735 in the past two years has been whether it was caused by humans. On the day of the plane crash in 2022, Upstream News, affiliated with the local official media Chongqing Daily Group, disclosed that some professional analysts said that the final radar data of Flight 5735 showed that the plane descended more than 8,000 meters in the last two minutes, and that part of its wing was damaged and The main wreckage distance indicates that the aircraft disintegrated before touching the ground, and it is speculated that there is a high probability that the aircraft touched the ground in a free fall.

This analysis has been widely recognized. According to the international aviation professional website "Flight Global", some American flight experts pointed out in 2022 that this straight crash clearly showed that this may be caused by human factors. There have been rumors on the Internet that this may be a deliberate crash caused by the co-pilot of the plane who was dissatisfied with his treatment.

However, the Civil Aviation Administration of China clearly denied that the co-pilot caused the crash shortly after the incident, saying that such rumors were "seriously misleading the public's perception." Two years later, the Civil Aviation Administration of China's notice did not mention the most controversial human factor at all, and made no attempt to clarify it.